Re: [FFmpeg-devel] trac antispam meassures
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:36:53AM -0800, Lou Logan wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > > > So ive added a very basic pre registration page that asks 2 trivial > > questions. > > This should help reduce the load on trac itself regarding the unending > stream of bots attempting to register. This will make training the bayes > easier because there will be less noise to sift through. > > As far as I can tell the spam that actually gets through is not usually > from bots but from live criminal miscreants: yes, the question though is do they know the project name it certainly doesnt pay for them to do this just with one or even a hundread websites. If it wasnt in our URL i would say they would be out of the game too. As it is in the URL iam curious if these 2 questions will decrease human spam or not also the live criminals might have automated some of their trac attack procedure, that extra page might throw some off balance [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Breaking DRM is a little like attempting to break through a door even though the window is wide open and the only thing in the house is a bunch of things you dont want and which you would get tomorrow for free anyway signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
Re: [FFmpeg-devel] trac antispam meassures
On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > So ive added a very basic pre registration page that asks 2 trivial > questions. This should help reduce the load on trac itself regarding the unending stream of bots attempting to register. This will make training the bayes easier because there will be less noise to sift through. As far as I can tell the spam that actually gets through is not usually from bots but from live criminal miscreants: may they be cursed into becoming ffserver users. ___ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
[FFmpeg-devel] trac antispam meassures
Hi all There where a few spams getting throgh in ffmpegs trac in the last 2 days. It was suggested in #ffmpeg-devel to add some custom anti spam meassures and ask for the project name during register. trac doesnt support doing that in the current release There are also hundreads of bots trying to register per hour since months So ive added a very basic pre registration page that asks 2 trivial questions. This is implemented purely at apache level so should be entirely unaffected by trac upgrades and also could probably be added in front of any other pages needing spam protection. Furthermore the preregistration page can of course be changed and extended if anyone wants and submits patches ... If this causes any problems please report them https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/register https://trac.ffmpeg.org/register Thanks -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. -- Xenocrates signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
